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Successful Aging
Bloom, Martin; Klein, Waldo C.
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Description for Successful Aging
Hardback. Addresses both professionals and their clients, detailing health maintenance procedures that clients can perform for themselves. This book describes over 40 preventive and promotive strategies for good health in older people, focusing on natural strengths the elderly possess and can develop, without ignoring inevitable limitations. Series: Prevention in Practice Library. Num Pages: 212 pages, biography. BIC Classification: MBNH; MJX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 20. Weight in Grams: 1100.
There is a near-universal folk saying that everyone wishes to live a good long life, but no one wishes for old age. More contemporarily, the rock and roll band, Little Feat, sang, "You know that you're over the hill when your mind's making promises your body can't fill. " This book is about the good long life. It is a book about primary prevention strategies in the aging process; it is not about preventing that process. It is not about being old. Instead, it is about the things that individuals - and the helping professionals who provide them with counsel ... Read more
There is a near-universal folk saying that everyone wishes to live a good long life, but no one wishes for old age. More contemporarily, the rock and roll band, Little Feat, sang, "You know that you're over the hill when your mind's making promises your body can't fill. " This book is about the good long life. It is a book about primary prevention strategies in the aging process; it is not about preventing that process. It is not about being old. Instead, it is about the things that individuals - and the helping professionals who provide them with counsel ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Springer Science+Business Media United States
Number of pages
212
Condition
New
Series
Prevention in Practice Library
Number of Pages
212
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780306456640
SKU
V9780306456640
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Ref
99-15
Reviews for Successful Aging
`User-friendly for practitioners in gerontology and a must for trainees in the health and helping professions.' Readings `Excellent and useful ... Every medical library should have this book.' Doody's Electronic Journal